In the Mood for Blues

Towards the end of a long week and after a fair few wordy posts this month, a bit of a frivolous and pictorial post in praise of blues.  Being a person who tends towards the earthier end of the spectrum (think browns, mossy greens, mustards and rusts), my sudden appreciation for blue has taken me slightly by surprise.  The other day, for e.g., I spotted a duck egg coat of a particularly handsome sobriety that I instantly coveted. So far the appreciation remains firmly on the side of indigo, midnight blue and smoky blues. I think I will give the brighter blue of skies a miss.  I turned of course to etsy for this compilation given how easy it is to colour search, the collection is a bit biased towards my recent textile+dyeing obsessions.



Blue Wool







Stone Bracelet



Indigo Dyed Dress



Cloth Cuff





Wools



Earrings



Australian Etsy

A pictorial post today.

I haven’t shopped much on Etsy but I do have a browse around once in awhile. Its rise and rise is astonishing and instructive in part because it’s a marketplace where women are the primary sellers and buyers. Sure it has strayed from its handmade pledge, perhaps much of it is driven by college educated women and much dross can be found on it. But that it came about at all I think provides plenty of material for a sociological and business analysis. At times, its overwhelming femininity can get far too twee but it can be a wonderful mirror of the myriad creative interests and abilities of women today. Today a few pictures from a couple of Australian etsyers.

Top Left: Spontaneous, unstructured clothes from Rawhemline; Top Right: Sweet jewellery pieces from michvanetta; Bottom Left: Delicate Photography from Waytoblue and Bottom Right: abstract artwork from gretchenmist - this one was example is "Native Garden Stripes".

Spotted on Etsy - Orwell Clutch

Presumably girls want to hold Napolean in their little hands:-)

Spotted on Etsy - New Orleans Debris

I like - no adore the colour mauve - in combination with silver it suggests dreams, the light of dusk, nights under a full moon, melancholia, tranquillity and so on. It is the perfect colour, not as cool as blue but not overly hot either. And what's not to like about an aesthetic sensibility that combines a delicate decay with the brooding mood of Southern Gothic? I was particularly drawn to this because it looks like it is dyed in various concentrations of the Violet Chelpark Ink that was once a proud possession.

I also love the tropics and in celebration, a work that combines its two elements - weathering and vivid colour.

Both works are by an artist from New Orleans.

Spotted on Etsy - Book Makeover

Vandalised book or the book reinvented?

I quite like it.

Image Source here.

Spotted on Etsy - Porcelain

From Bailey doesn't Bark
L: Four Seasons and R: Ants on my Cup

Spotted on Etsy - Crochet

They have loads more lovely crochet work.